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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish

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ThinkingGuy ◴[30 Jun 25 14:25 UTC] No.44423721[source]▶
I was there in the 1980s; writing your own Infocom-style text adventure games was a common project among my peers. There are probably lots of unfinished (or even finished-but-unshared) games out there on old floppy disks in closets.

I have a couple of my own, now archived on my home server.

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1. kevindamm ◴[30 Jun 25 16:31 UTC] No.44425158[source]▶
I also have a few of those from the 80s but only as notes written on sheets of paper (including many pages of hand-written BASIC and sometimes in various shorthands) because my Atari 800 did not have a cassette drive peripheral with which to save them.

They were fun when they ran for 15-20 minutes, even after keying them in for hours.